Strike Anywhere
“Strike Anywhere” / 32-minute HD Video, 2009
“Strike Anywhere” is a video essay that takes as its point of departure Swedish “Match King” Ivar Kreuger, whose privatization of financial crisis management strategies bears a direct relation to late-twentieth century policies implemented by the IMF and WTO. Between 1917 and 1932, Kreuger capitalized on shifts in global financial markets to control over 200 companies and establish matchstick monopolies in at least 34 countries. At the height of his success, Ivar Kreuger was worth approximately 30 million Swedish kronor (the equivalent of 100 billion USD today) and had matchstick monopolies in at least 34 countries. The project is both a prehistory of neoliberal economics and an allegory about social relations and desire in the wake of global capitalist expansion and excess.
Echoes
Ivalo Frank receives film grant to realise ‘Echoes’, a rhytmic documentary about a sounds, places and people. Recorded on various locations in east Greenland. Supported by Greenland’s Self Government and Kommuneqarfik Sermersooq. Documentary, 30 min. The film will be part of the art exhibition KUUK curated by Iben Mondrup Salto og Julie Edel Hardenberg. The opening is on the 2nd of September at the Royal Danish Art Academy’s exhibition space Garage (3rd-24th Sep 2010). Followed by an opening at Katuaq in Nuuk, on the 6th of November (6th-27th Nov 2010).